Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn't appear to be working up much of a sweat over him, considering that it could well be next.

In fact, when Geohot announced on Twitter that he was going out to buy a Windows Phone 7 (and we all know what he likes to do with phones) Brandon Watson - listed on Twitter as an "Entrepreneur on loan to Microsoft focused on getting our developer mojo back" - put out a message that basically said, 'put your money away, son':

Originally Posted by MoonTar;12076560
So M$ is giving him a dev phone so he can make stuff for it?

Pretty much.

Microsoft...
Thank you for doing it right.

I've honestly been wanting to get a WP7 device just because of the Zune UI, and because I already own a Zune and love the Zune software.
This just makes it feel better for me, that I can Jailbreak it if I want to.

Originally Posted by xxicrimsonixx;12076921
Of course they embrace it, they want Sony to fail just as much as they have vs the battle against piracy... It shows that even the seemingly unhackable PS3 is hackable, thus an equal to the Xbox 360.